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Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom.

Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel.

Of the sons of David, Hattush.

Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.

10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.

11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

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Ezra’s List of Family Leaders

These are the leaders of the families listed among those who left Babylon with me during the reign of King Artaxerxes: From Phinehas’s descendants: Gershom. From Ithamar’s descendants: Daniel. From David’s descendants: Hattush. From Shecaniah’s descendants and[a] from Parosh’s descendants: Zechariah, along with 150 men whose genealogies had been certified. From Pahath-moab’s descendants: Zerahiah’s son Eliehoenai and 200 men with him. From Zattu’s descendants: Jahaziel’s son Shecaniah and 300 men with him. From Adin’s descendants: Jonathan’s son Ebed and 50 men with him. From Elam’s descendants: Athaliah’s son Jeshaiah and 70 men with him. From Shephatiah’s descendants: Michael’s son Zebadiah and 80 men with him. From Joab’s descendants: Jehiel’s son Obadiah and 218 men with him. 10 From Bani’s descendants:[b] Josiphiah’s son Shelomith and 160 men with him. 11 From Bebai’s descendants: Bebai’s son Zechariah and 28 men with him. 12 From Azgad’s descendants: Hakkatan’s son Johanan and 110 men with him. 13 From Adonikam’s later descendants: Eliphelet, Jeuel, Shemaiah, and 60 men with him. 14 From Bigvai’s descendants: Uthai, Zabbud,[c] and 70 men with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:3 The Heb. lacks and
  2. Ezra 8:10 So LXX. The Heb. lacks Bani
  3. Ezra 8:14 So MT, but qere directs that the name be read Zaccur, perhaps due to confusion with the nearly identical Heb. word for men (Zecarim)